Filling the holes

My husband is suppose to start his new job on May 24th. That is in 2 weeks! I am starting to freak a little. I mean I am a happy go lucky gal and depend greatly on my faith and know He will take care of it all. I am only human though and my husband still does not have his orders to exit the Army. So next week we may have the movers here or we may have to pack and U-Haul it ourselves to the west coast. In any case I had to do something today to prepare for the move. So today I removed all the pictures, mirrors and curtains from the walls. I also removed all nails, tacks and hardware and I puddied a BUNCH of wholes. I didn't think I had so many pictures but apparently I do and two hours later the job was done. Now if only the government would work this quickly!

Cleaning out the cupboards

We are moving half way across the country and we can't take all our food. So one challenge is cleaning out the food before we move. Since I am unsure when our actual move out date is I have began buying minimum from the grocery store and began throwing together dinners out of all the randoms in the freezer. The last two nights have been HITS! Tonight I made a casserole. I am not a huge casserole fan but tonight was good! It consisted of chicken, frozen green beans, tater tots, can of corn (drained) and a can of cream of chicken soup, and a half can of milk, salt and pepper to taste. Mix it all together and cook covered 45 minutes at 375 degrees. It was yummy!! Have any of you discovered any yummy wonders while you were cleaning your cupboards?

May: 30 Days of Moving

OK, I apologize I have been lacking in the blogging area. I have discovered I actually am not a very good blogger. I get so busy. I work out of my home, am a wife, a mom, a volunteer and I teach Bible study class, to name a few of my responsibilities. I long for the days when all I can do is stay home and do "nothing." In a few short weeks, give or take a week or two, we will be moving from KS to OR. I am quite excited about this move as we will no longer be an army family. No more year long deployments or last minute month long trainings. We will be a family that eats dinner together every night. I am so thankful God has opened a door where we are able to go back to the Pacific Northwest. I huge blessing for us. Well with a move comes lots of work. We own our home in KS and let me tell you the market in our area is really slow so we decided to rent our home out. The last couple weeks we have painted our daughter's room, it was bubble gum pink. A coat of primer and two coats of white paint later the room is so boring! We touched up my son's room, it will stay the nice blue and tan color as it can be either boy or girl. We have cleaned, organized, mowed, planted grass, polished, and lots of other mundane chores that really you don't want to hear about. This month will be just my thoughts and pretty much whatever I want to blog about our move and adventure to Oregon. I will probably be MIA as we drive half way across the country. I must say I am not looking forward to this part. Our family has driven coast to coast and visited many states in between. Maybe we need to find a route that will take us to Disneyland this time around!

April: 30 Days of Silence

30 days of Silence....enough said.

Painting the Clay

Two days ago I gave my kids a bunch of Crayola Clay and said, "Have fun!" Two days later their creations were ready to paint. The tub said water colors would work for painting the dry clay. I was a little doubtful but this morning I let the kids have at it. The water color worked perfectly and there was minimal mess. We have a total of 10 paper plates of clay creations and now they are all painted. My son made an airplane and sword. My daughter made a "jewelry pot." I would say worth the $10 in supplies and the 2 hours of activity keeping my kids busy.

Felt Banner

This is a fun and fabulous kid craft, with a little help (or a lot) from mom. You will need two larger pieces of felt, ribbon, felt glue and various smaller pieces of colored felt. Decorate one larger piece of felt using your felt glue. When complete glue to other piece of felt with ribbon in between. The kids and I made wall hangings for their rooms using simple shapes.

Spring Break Kid's Crafts

It is Spring Break this week for my 6 and 8 year old who are in kindergarten and second grade. So what fun to do a couple crafts. To keep them busy this morning while I worked out for almost an hour I purchased a tub of air-drying modeling clay. The tub was $5.99 and they were able to mold soldiers, tanks, fires and oh yea a bunch of pumpkins. For some reason they are thinking of Halloween already and want to hide their pumpkins for each other to find on Halloween. Later in the week they will be painting their creations. I will blog about this later.